SE — SS". v ne Sr OO sp gre : crmEE——— SN i 50) um o i NE, 2 ETRE ES Sed RTT TY A CT TR TORI BE TS A SST RES i A tion of the 1211 of this month, commenting | These repeated and continued invasions | derstood. If not hindered [ot course by| We repeat, a suspension of the writ of} waiving that cousideration this statute, by | tant that party feclings should be laid ae @he use on the resolutions adopted at that meeting, | of constitutional hberty and private right | arrest,) he is sure to help the enemy, and | fubeas corpus merely dispenses with & sin. [118 very terms, promptly removes the pro-| and that all should be called upon tov 3 7 Eo. was addressed, Have tho honor to sent to have occasioned profound awxicty in the much more if he talks ambiguously —talks | p16 and peculiar remedy against an unlaw- ceeding in every case into the courts where | most cordially and vigorously ta main an nd ra) ke Watch = | your Excellency a reply to that communi-| public mind. The apprehension and alarm | for his coun ry with ‘buts’ and ‘ifs’ and | fu] imprisonment; but if that remedy had the sons detained are to be dischiarned, | Union, at the 1ime you were sworn int “or the atchman. ati : tho oe tree X + 3 3 wy ulate . - « *n 5 . 3 : » . . adicte TIN ARPGS ARInG 1 y ei a3 Inile « h FSTRANGEMENT. he Lp by u ‘ Mamie who reported fhe Yih Gey wre ealoulsied to bretaes have | ‘ands. : You so Es that (310, 8¥1081% nave existed, the right to liberty would be |unle Jidieted for Spiel often against for pePastee of the aited ie w n- resolutions, The great importance to the [been greatly enhanced by your attempt to | complained of have not been made “for the | he same, aud every invasion of that right the established, and ascertained laws of | you should have urged your fellow-ci WY IOUS 7. MITGIRIL. people of this country of the questions dis-| justify them, because in that attempt you [treason d.fined in the Constitution.” nor [would be condemned not only by the Cons- | Lhe country. {in the most emphatic manner to cv Sr cnssed must be our apology, 1f any be|assume to- yourself a rightful authority] «for any capital or otherwise imfamous | (itution, but by principles of far greater an Upon what foundation, then, permit us| all past differences and to rally in defene “Twas not thy human heart which spoke veeded, for saying that we fully concur in| possessed by no constitutional monarch on | crimes, nor were the proceedings following tiquity, than the writ itself. Our common | to 28k, do you rest the pretention that men | of their country and its institutions, when o i ye this reply, and believe “it to be in entire | earth. We accept the declaration that you | in any constitational or legal sense ci minal {law is not at all indebted to this wrt for | Who are not accused of crime may be seized | You should have enjoined respect for the la Spain Rai harmony with the views and sentiments of | prefer to exercise this authority with a | prosecutions.” The very ground, then, of lis action of false imprisonment, and the {and imprisoned or banished at the will and | and the Constitution, ro clearly di = the meeting referred to, moderation not hitherto exhibited. But be- | your: justification is, that the victims of | action would remain to the citizen, if ihe pleasures of the President or any of his sab- | by the South, you chose, for the first Theu dost tot mean to erush the heart We are, with great respect, very truly yours, | lieving as we de, that your forbearance is | arbitrary arrest were obedient to every law, | wnt were abolished forever. Aaain, every |oFdinates ia civil and military postions 2— | under like circumstances in the history _ Whossovang! ih Shing ould Frases CORNING, President. | not the tenure by which liberty is enjoyed { were guiltless of any known and defined | man, when his life or liberty is threatened Where is the warrant for invading the {ree- | our country, to set up a party plat To ee, which thon Ei Perry, John Taylor Cooper, Peter | in this country, we propose to challenge the | offence, and therefore were svithout the pro- | without the warrant of law, may lawinlly dom of specen and of the press? Where is | called the Chicago platform. as your creed Monteath, Peter Gansevoort, Wm. S. Pad-| ground on which your claims of supreme | tection of the Constitution. ‘ihe suspen- | resist and if necessary in self-defence, may | the justification for placing the citizen on | to advance it Leyond the Constitution, and Forgot thee! oh as easily So eos B. ss, iL Ww! oy power is based. While yielding to you as |sion of the writ of habeas corpus instead of | (ake the life of the aggressor. .Morcover, trial without the presentinent of a grand ju- | to speak disparagingly of that great cr Fe nny rs Sa block, FA x es a constitutional magistrate the deference to | being intended to prevent the enlargement the people of this country may demand the Ty and before mifitary commissions ? There varlge tribunal of our country, so higely res- Must do it after death. Stephen Clark, Bernard Reynolds, John P. | which you are entitled, we cannot accord to | of arrested criminals until a legal trial and impeachment of the President himself for | és 20 poiver in this country which can sip- | pecied by all thinking men who have hi- Mi ai a JA 3 you the despotic power you claim, however | conviction can be had, is designed, accord - | the exorcise of arbitury power. And when ath ils I The President 15 as | gulf into our ingifintions The Supreme \ ‘ore ness 04 nly come otewart, . JSaee, sv. 2s bo Loeb, - and jus v omit i . i cubie i . . . a a humhlos tdi) wrt of the ited States ir Li alas tii i D.V¥ Radclifte, Moses Patton, Francis Sd ul ‘ 2 A STASIS ’ # sap 37 Le . P asure. | the protections of free institutions, thei re- i Ta b i : in mind, in fist i a ; us pe 2 ; 5 fifi Talits hos ceased toolifi. Kearney, Sumucl w. Gibbs, Timothy Sey- 2 or 5 realy conmirere 2 Diente disel OF prusisnies aedovaing t0 | mains. in the last resort tae supreme right pier Sha yeu A Solr painnt the Ieel jes efi¥0q) {hen dad down. Notwith- : mour, L. D. Holstien, J. Sporborg, Richard |on which your pretensions to more than | this extraordimary theory, and still more so | of yeyolution. You once snunounced this | ing of the people on this snljeet that for the | Standing the fact that “several hundred The pine a3 casily may cease Purr, John McElroy, E. Jiaioatny Sigmund regal authority are claimed to rest ; and if | the expression of opinions, however loyal, right with a latituds of expression which crime of dispencing with the laws and stat. | thousand Demosrats in the loyal Stat "lg moan when breezes sigh, gig W on oy oun anes Quibs dow we do not misinterpret the misty and cloud- | if attended «with criticism upon the policy may well be considered dangerous in the | utes of Great Britain, cur anzestors brought | cheerfully responded. to the call of thew A : { lasing hosting Beart Viee Prosdents. AHOTgArY ! fed forms of expression in which those pre- | of the Government. We must respectfully | present crisis of our national hisiory.— One monarh to the seaflold, and expelled | country, Hild dre ranies of lis) armies, and Hale Kingsley, James McQuade, J. M. | tensions are set forth, your meaning is, that | refuse our assent to this theory of the con- | you said , discharge from imprisonment.-— Now, we cannot help asking whether you have overlooked this law, which most asur- edly you are bound to observe, or whether Congress, in consideration of the devoted and patriotic services of General Jackson, refunded the amount of the fine he had paid. But .he long delay mn doing this proved how reluctant the American pebple were to do any thing which could be considered as in auy way approving the disregard shown to the magisty of the law, even by one who so eminently enjoyed their confidence and private dwellings, yellow waving wheat fields just ready for the sickle, were alike destroyed in the wantonness of vengeance, Speaking of the immense amount of forage committed to the flames, the jubilant nae- rator says: “lmmense 18 not the word— language cannot describe the scene —the smoke ar'sing from burninz corn-eribs in every direction and for many miles on each duly and illegally charged with some known side of our path.” crime, and a saspension of the writ was nev- er asked for in Engiand or this country, ex- cept to prevent such enlargement when the supposed offence was against the safety of the Government In the year 1807, at the time of Burr's alleged conspiracy, a bill was passed mm the Senate of the United States, suspending the writ of habeas cospus for a a limited time in all cases where persons were charged on oath with treason or other | high crime or misdemeanor, Your doctrine an the public interest Sa is a | these guarantees, a dis inguished citizen of gracious indulgence of the Exceutive only. | I peacetul and loyal State has been torn|'I'his great heresy once established, and by rom his home at midnight by a bana of sol-| this mode of induction there springs at once nad. | diers, acting under the order of one of your | into existence a brood of crimes or offences The committee have considered the sub. | generals, triel before a wilitary commis-| undefined by. aay rule, and hitherto un- Jeet, and viewing the questions at issue as | sion, without judge or jury, convictcd and | known to the laws of this country; and o the guises importance, replies to the | sentenced without even the suggestions of | this is followed by indiscriminate arre,ts, TY Ce ay. Nig jy offence known to the Constitution and | midnight seizures, unheard of modes of of the coramittée it was sent to’ the Presi. | laws of this country. For all these acts| trial and punishment, and all the machinery dent by the officers of the mooting, in a let- | you avow voursel{ ultimately responsible, |of terror and despotism. Your language let, their signatures, to which the | Tn the special case of Mr. Vallandigham, | does not permit us to doubt as to your es- ilowing is a copy : | the ingustice commenced by your subordin- | sential meaning ; for you tell us that “ar- A ate was consummated by a sentence of exile | rests are made not so much for what hag {SeTies fhe feodon of speech, and of fe from his home pronounced by you. That |been done as for what probably would be press. 1 inva ley the suited "domaine of the {great wrong, worz than any other which | done. And again:- “The man who s'ands optim and dua. ¢ i? dpapunis boi meeting held in this city on the 16th { preceded it, asserts (he principles of .a su- by and says nothing when the peril of his a i 2S iL Eh Jan av Invilng rhein. ivr 3 a at guage, and even the refuge of silence is 1mse- day of May last, to whom your com Government is discussed cannot he misun- | cure. regard. One subject more, and we shall conclude. You express your regret that our meeting spoke “as Democrats,” and you say that in this time of national peril you would bave preferred to meet us cn a level, one higher than any party platform. You thus compell us to allude to matters which wg should have preferred to pass by. But we cannut omit to pass your criticism, as it casts. as least an applied reproach upon our motives and our proceedings. remind you that when the hour of our coun- try’s peril had eome, when it was evident made it be your intention to disregard it? [is meaning certainly canuot be mistaken, By it the National Legislature has sai that the President may suspend the accustomed writ of habeas corpus, but at the sume time 1t has commanded that all arrests under his authority shall be promptly made known to the cours of justice, and that the ac cused parties shall be liberated, unless seated by a Grand jury according to the Oonstitation, and tried by a jury in the an- cient and accustomed mode, The President way ‘possibly, so far as Congress can give the right, arrest without legal cause or warrant. We certainly deny that Congress ean confer this right, because it is forbidden by the higher law of the Constitution. But j our Government, when it was vitally impor- sumed, he had deewed it proper to t the Presidents letter to the commit- tee, who ried the resplutions for such action as in their judgment it might de Great numbers of slaves were brought away, but this was a matic of course. — Ir, : eer 1>>The Commercial Bulletin says that Mr. Chase contemplates endorsing Lis own views by assuming the Presidency, afier his retirement from office. of a bank under the national law of 2,000,000 capital, to be located at Washington A litile over two years ago Mr, Chase left this city unable to pay his debts. Those who make this war pay at the rate of a million a year may well denounce Demo- crats Chaitors,” for (heir patriotism "Chase clears about fouo dollars on every American citi- “en butchered. — Crests, step pre- We beg to To kis Erecll of the Un- cy, the President iled States : as 1 The undersigned, ofliiers of that a most gigantic cffort was to be Samounts to considerable. puvhc to subvert our institntions and to overthrow ea- | preme despoti-m. ea- | preme despoti-m